Full CV

JSM, Stanford University, 2004

MSc (Comparative Politics) (with Mark of Distinction), London School of Economics & Political Science, 1998

LL.B. (Second Upper Honours), National University of Singapore, 1995

Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 1996

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2005-Present

Previous Appointments:

Lecturer-in-Law, Singapore Management University, 2001-2005

Senior Tutor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, 1999–2001

Research Associate, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998-1999

Foreign Service Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, 1996-1997

Other Positions

Associate, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, 2010-present

Advisory Panel, National Youth Council Academy, 2010-2012

Board Member, Centre for Non-Profit, Leadership, 2009-present

Member, Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship Selection Committee, 2006-present

Member, National Working Group on Social Responsibility [ISO 26000], SPRING Singapore, 2006-present

Honours & Awards

Academic:

Stanford Program in International Legal Studies Scholarship, Stanford Law School, USA, 2004-2005

Solomon Asch Centre for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict Summer Institute Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2005

Stanford Centre on Conflict and Negotiation Graduate Student Fellowship, Stanford University, USA, 2005

Fulbright Fellow, 2003-2004

Fellow, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford Law School, USA, 2003-2004

Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship, Tan Kah Kee Foundation, 2003-2004

Robert McKenzie Memorial Prize, London School of Economics & Political Science, 1999

Tun Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan Scholarship, Tun Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan Trust Fund and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1997-1998

Non-Academic:

Meritorious Service Award (Kurnia Jasa Gemilang), The Singapore Scout Association, 1996

Green Leaf Award (Youth), Ministry of the Environment, Singapore, 1994

Courses Taught in SMU

Constitutional & Administrative Law

Law and Policy of Ethnic Relations in Singapore

Managing Ethical Dilemmas and Corporate Governance (MBA)

Singapore Studies

Ethics and Social Responsibility (University core curriculum course)

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Law, Society, and Public Policy

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Corruption, Governance and Public Ethics

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation

Government and Politics of Singapore

Current Projects

Management of Ethnic Relations in Singapore

ASEAN Charter

Immigration, Citizenship, and Integration

Religion and the Law

Corporate Social Responsibility in Singapore

Op-eds / Commentaries

'Of dreams and bubbles: Right-sizing home ownership'
The Straits Times, 11 September 2010, p. D6

' 对移民问题的两种忧虑' (Immigration in Singapore: Two Kinds of Anxieties)
Lianhe Zaobao, 6 September 2010, p. 12

‘Celebrate, don't fear, diversity'
TODAY, 21 July 2010, p.14

‘When violent extremism needs a measured response'
TODAY, 10-11 July 2010, p. 12

' 处理赌场的不良社会影响' (Managing the ill effects of casinos)
Lianhe Zaobao , 6 July 2010, p. 10

‘Remembering our Founding Fathers'
TODAY, 22-23 May 2010, p.10

‘Mother tongue languages at a crossroads'
TODAY, 13 May 2010, p. 17

‘Mother tongue: A hot button issue'
TODAY, 5 May 2010, p. 18

‘Engaging the absent citizen'
TODAY, 6-7 March 2010, p.40

‘Cherishing and respecting diversity'
TODAY, 20-21 February 2010, p. 3

'Nation-building in an age of economic anxiety' [Economic Strategies Committee]
Weekend TODAY, Nov 28-29 2009, p. 39

‘Ageism at the office'
Weekend TODAY, Oct 31-Nov 1 2009, p. 53

‘Melding the old with the new' [Immigation & Integration in Singapore]
TODAY, Sep 26-27 2009, p. 44

‘Fault lines in our “Garden of Eden State'
TODAY, Aug 18 2009, p. 1-2

‘Voters' choice: Breaking the gridlock of race and gender'
The Straits Times , 26 May 2006, p. 39

'Return the GRC scheme to its roots'
The Straits Times , 24 March 2006, p. 31

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Eugene KB Tan (in press) The State of Play of CSR in Singapore (Singapore: Lien Centre for Social Innovation)

Eugene KB Tan (2011) 'Who Dragged Christianity into the AWARE Saga? Perceptions, Observations and Responses,’ in Terence Chong (ed.), The AWARE Saga: Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore (Singapore: NUS Press), 51-73

Eugene KB Tan (2011) ‘Election Issues,’ in Kevin Y L Tan and Terence Lee (eds.), Voting In Change: Politics of Singapore's General Elections 2011 (Singapore: Ethos Books), 27-47

Eugene KB Tan (2011) ‘Keeping Politics and Religion Separate in the Public Square: The Regulatory State ‘Managing' Religion in Singapore,' in Ishtiaq Ahmed (ed), The Politics of Religion in South and South East Asia (London & New York: Routledge), 195-224

Eugene KB Tan (in press; 2010) The Putative CSR Eco-System in Singapore : Drivers, Impediments, and Prospects (Singapore: Lien Centre for Social Innovation, Singapore Management University)

Eugene KB Tan (2010) ‘Managing Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore: Economic Pragmatism, Coercive Legal Regulation, or Human Rights?' Israel Law Review, 43(1), 99-125

Eugene K B Tan (2010), 'The Evolving Social Compact and the Transformation of Singapore: Going beyond Quid Pro Quos in Governance,' in Terence Chong (ed), Management of Success: Singapore Reassessed (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), 80-99

Eugene K B Tan (2008; published 2010) 'The ASEAN Charter as “Legs to Go Places”: Ideational Norms and Pragmatic Legalism in Community Building in Southeast Asia,' Singapore Year Book of International Law, 12, 1-28

Eugene K B Tan (2009), ‘From Clampdown to Limited Empowerment: Hard and Soft Law in the Calibration and Regulation of Religious Conduct in Singapore,' Law and Policy, 31(3), 351-379

Eugene K B Tan (2009), ‘Corporate Social Responsibility,' in Gary Chan and George Shenoy (eds), Ethics and Social Responsibility: Asian and Western Perspectives (Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education (Asia)), 209-247

Eugene K B Tan (2009), ‘Chinese-Singaporean Identity: Subtle Change amidst Continuity,' in Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhnan, and Tan Tarn How (eds), Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore (Singapore: NUS Press), 324-335

Eugene K B Tan (2009), ‘Overview of Singapore Legal History and Development,’ in George Shenoy and Loo Wee Ling (eds), Principles of Singapore Business Law (Singapore: Cengage Learning), 25-38

Eugene K B Tan and Gary Chan (2009), 'Business, Society and the Law,’ in George Shenoy and Loo Wee Ling (eds), Principles of Singapore Business Law (Singapore: Cengage Learning), 3-23

Eugene K B Tan (with Gary Chan) (2009), 'The Singapore Legal System,' Singapore Law Online at http://www.singaporelaw.sg/

Eugene K B Tan (2008), 'Keeping God in Place: The Management of Religion in Singapore,' in Lai Ah Eng (ed), Religious Diversity in Singapore (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore), 55-82

Eugene K B Tan (2008), ‘A Union of Gender Equality and Pragmatic Patriarchy: International Marriages and Citizenship Laws in Singapore,’ Citizenship Studies, 12(1), 73-89

Eugene K B Tan (2007), ‘Norming Moderation in an “Iconic Target”: Public Policy and the Regulation of Religious Anxieties in Singapore,’ Terrorism and Political Violence, 19(4), 443-462

Eugene K B Tan (2007), 'The Multilingual State in Search of the Nation: The Language Discourse in Singapore’s Nation-Building,’ in Lee Hock Guan and Leo Suryadinata (eds), Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publishing), 74-117

Eugene K B Tan (2007), 'Harmony as Ideology, Culture, and Control: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Singapore,' Australian Journal of Asian Law, 9(1), 120-151

Eugene K B Tan (2007), 'Can We Leave this World Better than We Found it?’ in Roy Eidelson, Jena Laske, and Lina Cherfas (eds), Peacemaker 101: Careers Confronting Conflict (Philadelphia, PA: Solomon Asch Centre for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania), 173-179

Eugene K B Tan (2007), 'Singapore,' [on Singapore-USA bilateral relations] in David Levinson & Karen Christensen (eds), Global Perspectives on the United States: A Nation by Nation Survey (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing), 565-568

Eugene K B Tan (2006-2007), 'The Lion Engages the Dragon and the Elephant: Singapore as a Knowledge Arbitrageur in a New Asia,' Journal of Asian Business, 22(2&3) & 23(1), 81-101

Eugene K B Tan (2005), ‘Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits of Electoral and Spatial Integration in Singapore,’ Ethnopolitics, 4(4), 413-428 [Also published in Florian Bieber and Stefan Wolff (eds), The Ethnopolitics of Elections (London & New York: Routledge, 2007), 53-68]

Eugene K B Tan (2004), '"We, the Citizens of Singapore": Multi-ethnicity, its Evolution and its Aberrations,' in Lai Ah Eng (ed), Beyond Rituals and Riots: Ethnic Relations and Social Cohesion in Singapore (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press), 65-97

Eugene K B Tan (2003), 'Re-engaging Chineseness: Political, Economic and Cultural Imperatives of Nation-Building in Singapore,' China Quarterly, 175, 751-774

Eugene K B Tan (2002), "'We'" v. 'I': Communitarian Legalism in Singapore,' Australian Journal of Asian Law, 4(1), 1-29

Eugene K B Tan (2001), 'From Sojourners to Citizens: Managing the Ethnic Chinese Minority in Indonesia and Malaysia,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24(6), 949-978

Eugene Tan (2000), 'Success amidst Prejudice?: Guanxi Networks in Chinese Businesses in Indonesia and Malaysia,' Journal of Asian Business, 16(1), 65-84

Eugene Tan (2000), 'Law and Values in Governance: The Singapore Way,' Hong Kong Law Journal, 30(1), 91-119